Carrying the Tiger: Love Practiced in the Presence of Death
Podcast: Skin and Soul™: Beyond the Pale with Gwenm A. CarsleyPublished On: Fri Feb 20 2026
Description: What does love become when there is no cure ~ only time, devotion, and choice? In this episode of Skin & Soul, I sit with Tony Stewart to talk about Carrying the Tiger - a memoir that refuses to sentimentalize illness, grief, or recovery. We talk about:loving someone while they are dyingcaregiving as an act of intimacyhow grief lives in the body, not the calendarthe moment joy returns — and the guilt that can followloving again without erasing what came beforeThis is a conversation about staying present when life cannot be fixed.About learning to live with your hands open.About what it means to carry love forward, while remaining with life.
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